United Methodist Church Deer Park Washington

11/02/2023

Pumpkin Lane in Deer Park is a favorite of our community. This was our first year participating but it won't be our last!

11/02/2023

09/07/2022

…and to say goodbye to Summer and hello to Autumn, come be part of the Deer Park United Methodist Church family’s singalong to the Disney movie, “Mary Poppins Returns”! Bring your kids, chairs or quilts to sit on and snacks for your family. We will provide popcorn and lyric sheets to the songs. September 16 at 7 pm. If you want to practice up, Youtube has the soundtrack. Questions? Email at: [email protected]/

07/24/2022

Our new Baby Room!!!thank you Angi!!

07/07/2022

““But there is another urgency before me now. I feel compelled to go to Jerusalem. I’m completely in the dark about what will happen when I get there. I do know that it won’t be any picnic, for the Holy Spirit has let me know repeatedly and clearly that there are hard times and imprisonment ahead. But that matters little. What matters most to me is to finish what God started: the job the Master Jesus gave me of letting everyone I meet know all about this incredibly extravagant generosity of God.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭20:22-24‬ ‭MSG‬‬

From Keith & Kristyn Getty: In our own songwriting for the church, we often consider these questions: Is there a musical vocabulary that might link generatio...

07/05/2022

Something to prayerfully ponder.

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01/20/2020

Take your kids to church.
Make the effort. Wake them up early. Fool with the belts and the buckles and the fancy hair bows. Endure the sleepy, grumpy faces and the misplaced shoes. Run around like a mad woman gathering everybody’s everything and trying to get out the door on time. Hop to the car with a shoe in each hand. Give those babies a pop-tart and some milk and let ‘em eat it in the car. If its raining, get wet. If its cold, get a jacket. If you’re tired, go tired. But take those babies to church. You know why?

Because Jesus is there.

He’s there. And He’ll meet them there. And you too, Mama.
He’ll be there in the sweet smile of their Sunday School teacher as she greets them into their room. He’ll be there in the goldfish and the apple juice and the filling of their little bellies and hearts. He’ll be there in the hug from a sweet friend and the encouraging smile that assures you that they “just barely made it” too. He’ll be there in the sacred words read from the Bible speaking truth to their little impressionable hearts. He’ll be there in the worship and the raised hands and the watery eyes and whispers of praise.

So take them. Carry all of their Bibles and drawings and toilet paper tube creations. Sit by them in worship. Open your Bible and open theirs. Show them how to find the scripture the pastor is preaching from. Show them how to worship. Explain to them why He’s worthy of worship. Let them see you laugh and cry and praise and study. Forgive their wiggles and paper rustles and know that they’re listening even when it seems like they aren’t. Ask them questions and answer the ones they ask you. Introduce them to Jesus. Tell them of His greatness - his power - his faithfulness. Tell them with your words and show them with your life. Tell them what he’s done for you and how you’ve been changed by His grace and forgiveness and goodness and love. Tell them how they can be too. Point them to Jesus. Over and over and over again.

Take your kids to church. They’ll love it there. It’s the only place where they can go and just be themselves. They don’t have to “be” good enough or smart enough or athletic enough. They don’t have to perform for approval or achievement. They just get to go and hear how much God loves them. Just because they’re them. Just because He created them, they’re valued. Wanted. Their worth isn’t based on the grades they make or their ability to throw a curveball. Its not dependent on their performance or skill level. And they need a little more of that, don’t you think? A little more grace and a little less pressure. A little more love and a few less demands.

Take them to church. Before you take them to the ballfield or the gym. Before you take them on vacation or to grandma’s or to the backyard to play. Take them to church. Let them know its a priority. Show them it has eternal value. Let them see you set aside schedules and extra curricular activities and work and busy-ness to be present with the Lord in His house. I promise you won’t regret it. I promise you it won’t return back void.
Take them to church.

--Author: Megan Breeland Woodham One Step Ministries.

01/11/2020

With a forecast of snow, snow, snow, services tomorrow will be cancelled. Stay in, read scripture and meditate !

01/11/2020

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12/20/2019

When I was raising my now, grown children, there was a lot of controversy about whether or not Christians should recognize Santa Claus. Our family chose to keep the legend alive and had elaborate Christmas Eves with dinner, pajama presents, and Santa!

One Christmas Eve stands out more than the others. All the family we had living near us in Pocatello, Idaho, came to our place for sit down, traditional dinner of German sausage, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, mousse, Zwieback, and peppernuts. During dinner there was a loud stomping on our roof and the kids all watched out the large dining room window at the snow falling In big clumps past the window. Then there were the sounds of bells and a loud “Ho-Ho-Ho! “ As the kids peered out the window into the snowy night, there was a knock on the front door and when our 5 year old opened the door, she squealed at the big stack of presents on the porch. Santa came in that year and the children told him what else they wanted, fed him cookies and even my elderly grandmother sat on his lap and told him she loved him. And that Jesus loves him.
That year my sister’s friend, Frank, was Santa. Frank. Frank was a mean motorcycle papa, with tattoos and at one time had a very long Fu Manchu mustache. Before Frank had made his way into our family and into our hearts, he really was a bad guy. He’d been in prison many times. But he loved us and we loved him. He had started to know Jesus. He tried to follow Jesus even though he ended up back in prison for charges from his old life before we knew him.
There wasn’t a debate in our family about whether or not we should have Santa in our festivities. There wasn’t a debate in our family about whether or not Frank should be in our festivities. My grandma summed it up when she looked into Santa's eyes and told him, “Jesus loves you, Santa.”
Jesus loves you, Frank.

Come share the joy of Christmas with us on Sunday, December 22, at 10 am. I’ll be there. Lots of others will be there. And in song, and dance and sharing, Santa will be there. And Jesus is always there. st

11/27/2019

According to the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, "We Gather Together's" first appearance in an American hymnal was in 1903. It had retained popularity among the Dutch, and when the Dutch Reformed Church in North America decided in 1937 to abandon the policy that they had brought with them to the New World in the 17th century of singing only psalms and add hymns to the church service, "We Gather Together" was chosen as the first hymn in the first hymnal.

A different translation under the first line We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator was translated by J.B.C. Cory (1882-1963).

The hymn steadily gained popularity, especially in services of Thanksgiving on such occasions as town and college centennial celebrations. According to Carl Daw, executive director of the Hymn Society, the "big break" came in 1935 when it was included in the national hymnal of the Methodist-Episcopal Church.

According to Michael Hawn, professor of sacred music at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, "by World War I, we started to see ourselves in this hymn," and the popularity increased during World War II, when "the wicked oppressing" were understood to include N**i Germany and Imperial Japan.

This hymn is often sung at American churches the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day.

“We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known.
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!

We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant,
And pray that Thou still our Defender will be.
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!”